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PAHO’s year in health: 10 highlights from 2025

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on PAHO’s year in health: 10 highlights from 2025

PAHO’s epidemiological intelligence activities analyzed more than 1.8 million signals and detected 128 new public health events, issuing early alerts to address threats such as avian influenza...

Christmas: Numbers and numbness, production, destitution

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Christmas: Numbers and numbness, production, destitution

By GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – It’s been six years since the first barrel of oil rolled out of Guyana’s underwater reservoir. A reservoir that, when taken collectively, is as big as an ocean....

National Draughts Association stages Hamper competition last Sunday

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on National Draughts Association stages Hamper competition last Sunday

Kaieteur Sports – Once again Draught players were treated with Christmas Hampers when the National Draughts Association held another successful Hamper tournament played last Sunday at the...

Night of carols

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Night of carols

(Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Police Force hosted its annual ‘Night of Carols’ at the Police Officers’ Mess Annexe, Younge Street, Eve Leary on Sunday night. The event featured some of...

Memories of Guyana Christmas of 1960s and 70s

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Memories of Guyana Christmas of 1960s and 70s

By Dr. Vishnu Bisram (Kaieteur News) – In the diaspora, Christmas and the end of year season is being observed by every Guyanese. (Size of the diaspora is not known but estimated a million in USA,...

The Kennard Memorial Turf Club is the place to be on Boxing Day

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on The Kennard Memorial Turf Club is the place to be on Boxing Day

– Over 73 entries and $10M in prizes at stake By Samuel Whyte Kaieteur Sports – The wait is over, and the place to be is the Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) tomorrow, Boxing Day, December...

Was this a state event or a PPP-related function?

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Was this a state event or a PPP-related function?

Dear Editor, Recently, several beautifully professionally captured photographs were published on the Vice President’s Facebook page, purporting to depict scenes from a Christmas social on Tuesday...

Extra pay or enduring wealth? Expert urges structured use of bonus for disciplined services

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Extra pay or enduring wealth? Expert urges structured use of bonus for disciplined services

(Kaieteur News) – Following President Irfaan Ali’s announcement of an additional month’s salary for members of Guyana’s disciplined services, Financial Readiness and Corporate Wealth...

Embracing loss to leadership… Sir La Cruiz Joe and the Work of Belief in Paramakatoi’s Students

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Embracing loss to leadership… Sir La Cruiz Joe and the Work of Belief in Paramakatoi’s Students

(Kaieteur News) – In Paramakatoi, education is not an abstract idea. It is lived. It is walked, waited for, translated, shared, and earned. La Cruiz Joe, a teacher and coach at the Paramakatoi...

Guyanese Cuisine versus Others at Christmas

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Guyanese Cuisine versus Others at Christmas

Dear Editor, I traveled the world, visited close to a hundred countries, some multiple times, comparing and contrasting Guyanese culture (including food) with theirs (others). Every place has its...

‘No place like home for Christmas’ …overseas-based Guyanese reflect on Christmas

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘No place like home for Christmas’ …overseas-based Guyanese reflect on Christmas

(Kaieteur News) – As sure as the numeral 6 comes after 5, one can count on a Guyanese to book a flight to return home from abroad for the Christmas holidays. Factually, many would stock a suitcase...

Message of Hope and Unity for Christmas, 2025, from ANUG

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Message of Hope and Unity for Christmas, 2025, from ANUG

Dear Editor, As the soft glow of Christmas fairy lights illuminate our homes and the familiar chords of carols, in its original versions, or Reggae, Chutney or Soca, fill the air, the New and United...

Christmas, Performance and the Things We Don’t Say

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Christmas, Performance and the Things We Don’t Say

By Janelle A.N Persaud (Kaieteur News) – For many years, Christmas had been a difficult season for me to celebrate. Somewhere along the way, the version of Christmas I knew quietly collapsed and...

Need for Patriotic Education

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Need for Patriotic Education

Dear Editor, Over the period of the PPP/C government, from 1992 to 2015 and 2020 to now, education has made a great leap forward. This is undeniable. Before 1992 we were at the bottom of the ladder...

BEYOND THE RUNWAY… Entering a New Year with Intention and Vision

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS News 1

By Sonia Noel (Kaieteur News) – As we move beyond the Christmas season, I trust that many of us experienced moments of joy, connection, and reflection. My Christmas this year was very simple. It...

Modernising the Bank of Guyana: Promise, Practice, and Regional Lessons

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Modernising the Bank of Guyana: Promise, Practice, and Regional Lessons

Dear Editor, President Dr. Irfaan Ali’s recent announcement to modernise the Bank of Guyana signals a positive and well‑timed recognition that economic transformation must be supported by an...

‘What I asked Santa for this Christmas’

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘What I asked Santa for this Christmas’

(Kaieteur News) – Other than the tasty food, drinks and sweet treats, what kids look forward to the most at every Christmas is what Santa has delivered. Now while their wish list is as long as an...

The delay in the appointment of the Opposition Leader is unjustified

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on The delay in the appointment of the Opposition Leader is unjustified

Dear Editor, I would like to congratulate President Irfaan Ali and his government on the acquisition of the new and modern ferry for the Parika to Supernaam run. From the photographs in the media,...

A more than blue Christmas

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS Editorial, News Comments Off on A more than blue Christmas

(Kaieteur News) – Hard hit Guyanese are forced to endure more than a Blue Christmas today. They are living with black-and-blue marks on this Christmas Day, like battered, shell-shocked victims...

Several GRA staff held in massive tax scam

Dec 24, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Several GRA staff held in massive tax scam

(Kaieteur News) – Several employees of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) were arrested in relation to a suspected vehicle tax evasion scheme. This was confirmed by GRA Commissioner General Godfrey...

Guyanese company seeking permit for US$81M deepwater seismic survey

Dec 24, 2025 KNEWS News 1

(Kaieteur News) – Latitude Energy Inc, a Guyanese company has submitted an application to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to conduct seismic surveys in three deepwater oil blocks,...

Senior Counsel Rafiq Khan sworn-in as appellate judge

Dec 24, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Senior Counsel Rafiq Khan sworn-in as appellate judge

(Kaieteur News) – Justice Rafiq Khan, SC was on Tuesday sworn-in as a Justice of Appeal by President Irfaan Ali at a simple ceremony held at State House. Justice Khan was admitted to local bar in...

‘Venezuela threatens regional peace’ – Guyana tells UN Security Council

Dec 24, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘Venezuela threatens regional peace’ – Guyana tells UN Security Council

— Warns of border incursions, drug trafficking, gold smuggling and unlawful annexation (Kaieteur News) – Guyana on Tuesday warned that Venezuela is a threat to regional peace and reminded the...

Venezuela passes law against piracy, blockades amid US oil ship seizures

Dec 24, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Venezuela passes law against piracy, blockades amid US oil ship seizures

(Reuters) – Venezuela’s ruling-party controlled National Assembly unanimously approved a law on Tuesday that allows prison sentences of up to 20 years for anyone who promotes or finances...

Rum shop brawl leaves miner dead

Dec 24, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Rum shop brawl leaves miner dead

…one arrested (Kaieteur News) – A Sunday brawl at a liquor shop in the Cuyuni ended in terror after a 42-year-old gold miner was stabbed to death. The victim has been identified as Michael...

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Steadfast Eagles soar to strong position after Savory/ Paul fifties

Apr 21, 2026

2026/27 West Indies Regional 4-Day Championships Round 2…GHE vs WWIV Day 2 – Volcanoes trail by 210 runs ahead of Day 3 By Clifton Ross Kaieteur Sports – Clinical half-century knocks...

Dynastic politics is repulsive to the electorate

Apr 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – In 2025, there was a seismic shift in Guyanese politics. For years the established parties assumed voters would remain in their accustomed enclosures, dutifully choosing between familiar flags, familiar slogans, and familiar disappointments. But then something happened last...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

Wales GTE: Many questions, no answers

Apr 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The questions came before, are coming again. Former Minister David Patterson pushed questions in and out of parliament relative to the Wales gas-to-energy project and got nowhere. The Speaker of the National Assembly, like a Roman emperor, repeatedly gave the thumbs down. ...

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